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2 Grayling

All fish caught on parachute Adams.
Nice quiet beat with some good fly life still. No grayling seen.

3 Trout

Chilly start to the day as the valley was shrouded in mist, this burnt off by midday as the sun broke through. Thereafter good sunny spells until gone 7pm. Water low, as expected. Grayling caught through the day in faster water, the best about 14". Trout caught late on in a deeper pool, terrific fight for a 10" fish. All caught on weighted nymphs.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Gave up
Water low and full of bindweed

Low level, very short fish activity

2 Trout

one on nymphs, one too spiders and one one dry during brief hatch in the afternoon

3 Trout

Sadly No Fish Today, Only Seen One Rising On The Walk Down.

Another blank to chalk up for Colonel's Water!

The day didn't get off to the most auspicious of starts. My original plan was to fish the Taff, however the overnight rain had lifted the river to over 1.2m, so far too high to fish.

The Irfon was showing 0.65 on the Abernant gauge first thing, so I decided to try somewhere new and booked the Serenity House Middle Irfon beat just below Llangammarch. I walked the entire beat top to bottom, and I picked out only two places where it was safe to enter the river. The entire beat is heavily tree-lined and essentially unfishable in those conditions. Thankfully, a quick call to the WUF secured a refund and I switched to the Colonel's Water.

First off, the beat itself is fantastic, and access is very easy. There are numerous pools, glides, riffles and flats to choose from which look as though they should hold lots of fish. I hooked into an OOS brownie in the very first pool I fished and although it shook itself off the hook, I thought boded well for the day. Sadly, it did not. Not even a sniff and I fished the beat top to bottom and tried every nymph in the box.

Sadly I don't think I'll be back on the Irfon for grayling this season, the Taff is a much better bet. I've caught more grayling in two visits to the Taff than I have on six attempts on the Irfon!

Blanked - Tough day with some unexpected heavy flurries of snow. The Kingfisher looked rather amused at my shivering and my feeble attempts. Regardless, enjoyed the escape before busyness of 2026 begins! Happy New Year all - Tight lines!

River fining down from the recent high levels.
Water incredibly clear.
Only one tiny grayling caught on a gold head nymph.

1 Grayling